Scott Arfield was also on target, having opened his Town account in the previous week’s 2-1 win at Leyton Orient.

And both are reported to be in the running for the PFA Fans’ League I Player of the Month award.

Votes are being taken now, with Peterborough hot shot Aaron Mclean, Bristol Rovers’ Jeff Hughes and Exeter’s Ryan Harley also being flagged up.

McCombe and Arfield also made it into the Football League’s divisional team of the week, but the defender is far more concerned with Swindon and Tuesday’s short trip to Rochdale.

“Swindon have come into form and Rochdale have done well after being promoted last season and both of them will provide tough tests.

“As leaders, we’re there to be shot at and I’m sure that will be used to motivate our opponents, so we have to be ready to deal with it.”

Swindon’s Alan Sheehan and Vincent Pericard were also in the team of the week after Danny Wilson’s 14th-placed side won 2-1 at Walsall.

That followed a 1-0 home victory over Southampton for last season’s beaten play-off finalists, who have come to after a sluggish start.

The Robins drew three and lost the other two of their first five league games, and also suffered a setback with the loss of Charlie Austin to a shoulder injury.

The 21-year-old signing from non-league Poole Town plundered 20 goals last season and has four this time around.

With Billy Paynter, who netted 29 last term, now at Leeds, boss Danny Wilson has turned to African duo Vincent Pericard and Thomas Dossevi.

Cameroon star Pericard, 27, is a former Carlisle, Stoke and Portsmouth player who was once with Juventus.

And experienced Togo international Dossevi, 31, was recruited from French club Nantes in the close-season.

Those two have been operating at the tip of a 4-3-1-2 system.

Former Sheffield Wednesday man Jon-Paul McGovern, previously a right winger, has been deployed in the ‘hole’ behind the front two, ahead of a midfield trio of ex-Leeds men Jonathan Douglas and David Prutton and on-loan Paul Caddis, the skipper of a Scotland Under 21 side which also includes Arfield and who is a Celtic teammate of Town’s Graham Carey.